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Posted date: Oct 24, 2025
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $222,050
Range: $139,900 - $304,200
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Are you a Principal Software Engineer who loves to work on large-scale projects at one of the most exciting and diverse divisions within Microsoft? Are you looking for big, creative challenges that show immediate results since your customers will be just down the hall? Do you want to be at the core of it all, acting as a force multiplier enabling groups of engineers to do their best work? If so, we have the perfect job for you!As a Principal Software Engineer in the ES365 (Microsoft 365 Engineering Systems) team, you will own the tools that make up the end-to-end developer experience in Office and Copilot from source control and check-in experience to build, validation, and deployment automation, and we’re making big, bold changes – for the better! We’re making it easy to build and ship apps across platforms and endpoints, and we’re moving away from proprietary, internal-only tools onto “one Microsoft” investments, open source, and industry standard tools. This is an exciting time as we seek to re-invent productivity leveraging the power of AI universally. This opportunity will allow you to span a wide range of front-end and back-end technologies including web application development, cli development, back-end services, machine learning, managed code, cross-platform, cloud services, and more.
If you are excited about making engineers productive and happy by developing tools and services, we want you in ES365. Come be at the center of Microsoft 365 and join the team that is building the future of Engineering Systems at Microsoft!
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Work with engineers, product managers, designers, and partner teams to deliver a set of features with the right overall design and architecture. Provide mentorship and coaching to engineers in, and beyond, your team.Own and deliver complete features across the development lifecycle, including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, shipping, and servicing. Write and review clean, well-thought-out code with an emphasis on quality, performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, and maintainability. Be committed to delivering the best experience for our customers. Help create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self and where we do our best work as a result.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.5+ years experience building highly available distributed systems at scale. 2+ years experience architecting and delivering distributed cloud services. Preferred Qualifications:Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.Experience working across disciplines, groups, and teams.Experience with Azure. Experience working with and customizing JavaScript toolchain.
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 28, 2025.
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